Bram Stein

@bram_stein

Author of the Webfont Handbook: abookapart.com/products/webfo… Tweets on web typography and front-end development.

Copenhagen, Denmark

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Bram Stein
@bram_stein
Sep 5, 2017
It’s here! Go buy the Webfont Handbook and learn about rendering, licensing & optimising your webfont loading! abookapart.com/products/webfo…
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Bram Stein
@bram_stein
Sep 26, 2022
Slightly over half of web fonts support (a significant subset of) the Latin writing system. Unfortunately, other writing systems are underrepresented on the web compared to their use in the world. almanac.httparchive.org/en/2022/fonts#…
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Bram Stein
@bram_stein
Sep 26, 2022
A whopping 73% of sites set -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased to change how text is rasterized on MacOS. Do people really dislike the default way MacOS rasterizes text, or are lots of people including CSS libraries that set it by default?
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Bram Stein
@bram_stein
Sep 26, 2022
Slightly over 99.99% of variable fonts use TrueType glyph outlines. Not a good look for the CFF2 format six years after it was standardized. Perhaps time to deprecate it? almanac.httparchive.org/en/2022/fonts#…
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Bram Stein
@bram_stein
Sep 26, 2022
Nearly 91% of web fonts use TrueType glyph outlines while only 9% use CFF glyph outlines. After compression TrueType and CFF based fonts have nearly identical file sizes (and for larger fonts TrueType outlines produce smaller compressed file sizes). almanac.httparchive.org/en/2022/fonts#…